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Submitting screenshots through the web takes several steps more than it ought to. Firstly we have to paste it into mspaint.exe, save it to disk, only to then fiddle around with the File upload to look for the file again.

Another way to do it is via a signed applet. Unfortunately, the signed applet is unable to cooperate with the rest of the HTML form to submit multipart posts.

The next best thing is to send the screenshot to a hidden field with a base64 encoded image.

Love this concept, even 2 years later! Can you give me a short snippet on what the best mechanism is to integrate this into an HTML form would be? for instance, if my hidden field id is hiddenscreencap: